Making math meaningful helps students to retain the knowledge. Oneof the biggest hurddles for people to learn is word problems. This unit will help sstudents to discover that having a plan to solve a problem will help. This plan was made with 6-8 grade math in mind.
The topic of the unit is problem solving. The idea of the project is to have the students go on to be able to have a plan in place to solve problems. The role of the student is problem solver. The students will be looking at problem solving steps and then applying them to real world problems with a mathematical computaion involded in the solution.
Curriculum-Framing Questions are: Why solve problems? How do you solve a problem? Does having a plan help to solve problems? What is a problem solving plan? What are "key words" often used in word problems? What are the operations of mathematics? How do you add, subtract, multiply and divid fractions?
Welcome to Making Math Living by Solving It!Making math meaningful helps students to retain the knowledge. Oneof the biggest hurddles for people to learn is word problems. This unit will help sstudents to discover that having a plan to solve a problem will help. This plan was made with 6-8 grade math in mind.
The topic of the unit is problem solving. The idea of the project is to have the students go on to be able to have a plan in place to solve problems. The role of the student is problem solver. The students will be looking at problem solving steps and then applying them to real world problems with a mathematical computaion involded in the solution.
Curriculum-Framing Questions are: Why solve problems? How do you solve a problem? Does having a plan help to solve problems? What is a problem solving plan? What are "key words" often used in word problems? What are the operations of mathematics? How do you add, subtract, multiply and divid fractions?